
Italian Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies
Want a recipe for a classic Italian Chocolate Chip Cookies? Italian cookies are lighter than European shortbread, and have more crunch than chewy American cookies.…
Italian Peach Gelato
The sun is shinning and the temperature is rising here in Como. The first Pesche Noce have arrived at the Como Market! My mind immediately…
Healthy High Fibre Barley Sourdough Loaves
Today I discovered a packet of hulled barley grains in the cupboard. Part of the lockdown shopping madness! While I could have made a nice…
Soothing Fennel & Potato Soup
Who doesn’t love a warm bowl of soup to wrap your hands around on a cold day? Fennel Soup is one of my personal favourites,…
Delicious Easy Thai Fish Cakes
Easy Thai Fish cakes are just the thing for a quick but yummy dinner during this lockdown. It has been seriously difficult having to cook…
Guilt-Free Yummy Banana Bread
With Home Schooling still happening here in Italy, afternoon tea break is a big part of our day. What could be nicer than a delicious…
Gorgeous Gelato Stracciatella with Cookies
Who Doesn’t love a light icy Italian Gelato? Full of flavour and refreshingly light. Most summer evenings in Italy we enjoy a Gelato while strolling…
Delicious Irish Tea Cake (Brambrack)
This week called for something from home, Tea Cake or Brambrack as we call it in Ireland. Here in Como, the morning air is still…
7 Easy Steps to Create your own Sourdough Starter
Create your own Sourdough Starter, it is really very easy. During the COVID Lockdown we are all spending much more time at home, and its…
Top 5 Questions about Sourdough Starter
1. How often should I feed my sourdough starter? The minimum is once a week for a starter kept in the fridge, or once a…
Easy Sourdough Bread Rolls
Are you new to baking with Sourdough? This is a great easy recipe for delicious light sourdough bread rolls with that distinctive sourdough crust. Have…
Easter Hot Cross Buns
#Easter #Baking #LessYeast #SaveTheYeast #Buns #HotCrossBuns #QuarantineRecipe #Ilovecooking #yummy It’s Easter time and we are still on Lockdown. I made these with my Daughter Aoife…
Save your yeast! Easy Lockdown Yeast Bread Recipe
Running out of yeast? Want to let your yeast stock last longer? You can use WAY LESS dried yeast than you think. Read on for…
How to Easily Shape Bread Rolls
During this lockdown I am making bread rolls almost every day, they are perfect for filling for lunch time sandwiches, Hamburgers for dinner or just…
Easy Yeast Bread Rolls
Today is another day in COVID-19 Quarantine in Como. It is Sunday and the kids wanted to do something fun for this sunny day, so…
Naturally Gluten Free Soda Bread
This Gluten free soda bread recipe, is the result of lots of experiments and home, and lots of tastings by the kids! So this one…
Katie’s Irish Wholegrain Soda Bread
#quarantine #corona #IrishSodaBread #bakingbread #easybaking #noyeast #quickbread #healthybread This soda bread started me on my bread making adventure many years ago, but that’s a story…
Piadina – Quick Italian Flat Bread
#Piadina #lockdown #quarantine #iostoacasa #stayathome #cookingduringcorona What ever the hashtag, this recipe is perfect during this period of staying at home during the Corona virus…
Easy Wholegrain Focaccia – Pan baked method
This is a great first bread to begin with. It couldn’t be simpler. You need a nice freshly fed sourdough starter (see my 7 days…
Sourdough bread. A solution for those with gluten intolerance?
Sourdough prepared the old fashioned way, before added gluten and fast-rising yeast became the norm, may be one solution for those who can’t tolerate gluten.…
A momentous time for Bread
“It’s a momentous time for bread. That’s especially satisfying, given the years it spent as a bad word in our diet vocabulary: High carb! High…
Colourful Pasta Class
We had great fun recently at our Colourful pasta class, where we made fresh egg pasta, coloured with beetroot & spinach to create some beautiful…
Neapolitan Pizza
This is the traditional Neapolitan Pizza Dough recipe that we use in our Cooking Class in Como, no oil, not too much salt, just perfectly…
How to Freeze Pizza dough
During our Pizza cooking classes, we have been making lots and lots of yummy Neapolitan pizza dough. But one household can only eat so much…
Tuscan bread by the New Jersey gang
Todays class was very special because of the wonderful group we had from New Jersey, USA. Thanks for all the laughs guys, I hope you…